Jeffress last year: Catholicism 'counterfeit religion'

Robert Jeffress has been under fire since Friday for calling Mormonism a cult and saying that Mitt Romney is not a Christian.

But the Dallas pastor has gone after religions other than Mormonism. On Sunday, he described Islam and Hinduism and Buddhism as “false religions.”

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And in a recording from last year posted by the liberal group People for the American Way, Jeffress also charges that Catholicism is a product of a “Babylonian mystery religion” that corrupted early Christianity.

The early church was corrupted by this Babylonian mystery religion and today the Roman Catholic Church is the result of that corruption.

Much of what you see in the Catholic Church today doesn’t come from God’s word. It comes from that cult-like, pagan religion … Isn’t that the genius of Satan? If you want to counterfeit a dollar bill, you don’t do it with purple paper and red ink. You’re not going to fool anybody with that. But if you want to counterfeit money, what you do is make it look closely related to the real thing as possible.

And that’s what Satan does with counterfeit religion. He uses, he steals, he appropriates all of the symbols of true biblical Christianity and he changes it just enough in order to cause people to miss eternal life.